FAR Team?
(Nah - it was gonna be one of those where the word the last letter of the acronym stood for was repeated. I hate those too. âItâs not FART Team!! Itâs FART!!â )
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(Yahoo reprint)
âGo home,â one person said over the airwaves. âItâs better to be a deserter than fertilizer.â
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TIL you can get run over by a military tank and live.
Thatâs some pretty incompetent maneuvering by the tank driver. His commanding officer should be punished in some way for such poor training. Oh waitâŚhe was!
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On par with US casualties in the Battle of Okinawa, which was 2 months long.
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Even for my laser focused pedantry, itâs off my radar these days.
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Donât tell me you heard this one before. An ex-cia officer went for a stroll where she decided to get hundreds of million dollars of russian yachts she saw impounded by the EUâŚ
During her morning walks along the marina in downtown Barcelona, she began snapping shots of the ostentatious, multidecked superyachts believed to be owned by Russian oligarchs and posting the pictures on Twitter, bearing witness to one layer of the murky financial dealings and holdings of ultrarich Russians, many of whom are believed to have ties to President Vladimir Putin.
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Or US losses in the famously bloody battle of Iwo Jima. (Which ultimately wasnât of huge strategic value anyway.)
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How you structure maps matters
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Happily the Ukrainian soldiers who popularized that phrase have just been freed in a prisoner exchange. Good news!
Edit: sorry, I may have spoken too soon. The prisoners were from the Snake Island area but news report says itâs currently unclear whether those specific guys were included in the exchange:
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https://blog.archive.org/2022/03/22/volunteers-rally-to-archive-ukrainian-web-sites/
In addition to the above (and some of it may be duplicated below) this text is from an email from the Internet Archive
The Race to Archive the Ukrainian Internet
In times of war, preservation is more critical than everâcultural artifacts, historical collections, and important records are often targeted and erased. Since Russia invaded Ukraine last month, the Internet Archive has been a crucial member of the effort to preserve Ukrainian websites, datasets, and digital resources before theyâre lost forever.
We sometimes think of the internet as independent of the physical world, but data centers, routers, and cable networks are just as vulnerable to wartime destruction as a bridge or a road would be. Additionally, digital infrastructure can face other challenges ranging from electricity loss to advanced cyberattacks. Right now, more than a thousand volunteers from around the world are working to protect Ukrainian materials from these threats.
Archive Team
One major effort is being run by Archive Team, a loose collective of archivists, activists, and programmers who capture a variety of online materials and store them in the Internet Archive. Archive Team is running three major projects to capture the Ukrainian Internet. The first is an undirected crawl on URLs ending in â.uaâ, which ranges across as much of the Ukrainian web as possible in the hopes of quickly gathering a wide variety of materials. This approach has the advantage of breadth, but sacrifices depth; complete copies may not be captured for every targeted site. The second project, however, selects a few specific sites to archive in their entiretyâincluding government webpages, educational sites, and institutions that include digital archives and digital libraries. These sites are captured in-depth to ensure that as much is archived as possible. Finally, the third project is focused on journalism, relying on Ukrainian news aggregators to gather tens of millions of Ukrainian articles, creating a comprehensive, real-time record of how the invasion is unfolding.
SUCHO
Another effort to preserve crucial resources is Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online, or SUCHO. Coordinated online and through Slack, the volunteers are using a variety of web archiving tools, including the Wayback Machine, to capture web sites, open access journals, music, and other digital materials documenting Ukrainian cultural heritage. Many of these materials are now publicly available in the Internet Archive; if youâd like to learn more then check out this blog post about our support of SUCHO.
Take Action
How can you help the effort to protect these vital resources? Right now SUCHO is seeking more volunteers to help gather URLs, perform archiving operations, and improve metadata. Theyâre especially looking for people who speak Russian/Ukrainian or have coding skillsâyou can learn more here!
Another way to help is simply by using the Wayback Machine to preserve websites you may be concerned about. With the Save Page Now feature, anyone can submit URLs to be archived; if youâre logged in with an Internet Archive account, you can also select âOutlinksâ to capture any pages that link to the page youâve selected. And if you have the Wayback Machine browser extension, you can take a snapshot without having to leave the pageâhereâs the add-on for Chrome, for Safari, for Firefox, and for Microsoft Edge. If you see something, save something!
Last but not least, you can make a difference by donating to the Internet Archiveâwe rely on contributions from individuals like you to fund our infrastructure, develop archiving tools, and purchase servers where cultural artifacts can be stored in perpetuity. Your generosity will help us continue to promote the work of preservation around the world.
Thank you for your support.
-The Internet Archive Team
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The journalists who spoke to ITV News sometimes appeared conflicted in their own views. Some of them said they support the Russian governmentâs position yet recognise that they operate under restrictions whilst at the same time saying they are not subject to censorship. All of them appeared anxious about their actions.
With sanctions battering the Russian economy and prices rising, some state media employees said they preferred to keep fighting an information war they do not necessarily believe in rather than lose their livelihoods.
âWe still have to be able to buy food,â the Channel One journalist said.
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